Alfio Quarteroni

Alfio Quarteroni is Professor Emeritus at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Professor Emeritus at EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is the founder of MOX at Politecnico di Milano (2002) and first director (2002-2022), the founder (2010) and first director (2010-2015) of MATHICSE at EPFL, the co-founder (and President) of MOXOFF.

He has been Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the EPFL, from 1998 until 2017. Formerly, he has been full professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis (2000-2002) and full professor and Department Chair at Catholic University of Brescia (Italy) (1986-89).

He is the author of 24 books (several of them with multiple editions and translated into several languages), editor of 12 books, author of more than 400 papers published in international Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of 25 International Journals and Editor in Chief of two book series published by Springer.
 

Hrvoje Jasak

Hrvoje Hasak is the Gianna Angelopoulos Professor of Continuum Physics, at the Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He also holds a Professorship at the University of Zagreb and a Mercator Fellowship at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Furthermore, he is one of the two original co-authors of OpenFOAM, Chair of the OpenFOAM Numerics Technical Committee and a member of OpenFOAM Governance Steering Committee.

He is also the founder and managing director of Wikki Ltd.

Hrvoje Jasak has a first degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Zagreb (1992), and a Ph.D. in CFD from Imperial College London, with Prof. A.D. Gosman (1993-1996).

He was a Senior Development Engineer at CD-adapco (now Siemens PLM) (1996-2000), Technical Director at Nabla Ltd (2000-2006), and has worked on new generation software at Ansys-Fluent Inc. (2000-2008).